The English Language

We'll begin with a box,
and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox
became oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose,
but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose
should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse
or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house
is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man
is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan
be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot
and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot,
would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth
and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth
be called beeth?

Then one may be that,
and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural
would never be hose,
and the plural of cat
is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother
and also of brethren,
but though we say mother,
we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.